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TIL the Canadian government spent $28 million centuries after the War of 1812 to promote Americans as invaders in “a war of independence” for Canada, which became a country in 1867.

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grO9D TIL the guys from Milli Vanilli (Rob & Fab) as well as the original singers were all misled by their record producer in the lip-sync scandal and are the ones that brought it to the press. Rob & Fab were upset they wouldn't let them sing, and the original singers were upset they weren't the stars.
QJ1Ea TIL that the first thing ever sold on the net was weed, sold by Stanford students to counterparts in MIT
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9Ee6 TIL of Slavisa Pajkic, a man who was born with no sweat glands. He and his brother are able to withstand thousands of volts of electricity running through their bodies(or through their skin). Scientists are unable to explain the phenomenon
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